Artist Isabelle Garbani helping 6th graders at Cheng Long Elementary School cut recycled plastic bags into yarn, for crocheting the many plastic leaves she used for her installation “Invasive Species,” situated on an old house—now home to chickens and ducks—in Cheng Long village, Taiwan.
View of Isabelle Garbani and volunteers from all over Taiwan in a rice paddy planting rice seedlings, Cheng Long.
Isabelle Garbani (center) and volunteers installing crocheted plastic leaves on an old house in Cheng Long village.
View of Isabelle Garbani’s installation “Invasive Species,” created with approximately 1,500 hand-crocheted leaves made from recycled plastic bags.
Isabelle Garbani teaching 6th graders at Cheng Long Elementary School in Taiwan how to crochet with recycled plastic bags.
View of 6th grade class at Cheng Long Elementary School cutting recycled plastic bags into yarn for Isabelle Garbani’s installation “Invasive Species.”
Janet Ranson from South Africa and Cheng Long Elementary School boy splitting bamboo for her installation “Circle of Life.”
Janet Ranson and volunteers begin to create a fish from bamboo, for Ranon’s installation “Circle of Life.”
Janet Ranson from South Africa and a volunteer installing her work “Circle of Life” in the Cheng Long wetlands.
Janet Ranson”s installation “Circle of Life” installed in Cheng Long wetlands.
Artist Markuz Wernli Saito and volunteers sorting clam shells for his mural work “Food Chain.”
Markuz Wernli Saito and volunteers working on his clam shell mural titled “Food Chain.”
Detail of “Food Chain” mural showing a rice bowl and human hand holding chopsticks, made from clam shells.
Finished “Food Chain” mural using thousands of recycled clam shells.
Artist Prashant Jogdand and volunteers building the handle for his large cup sculpture in recycled bamboo.
Prashant Jogdand’s “The Food Bowl,” installed in the Cheng Long wetlands.
Prashant Jogdand’s large bamboo spoon sculpture installed by an old house in Cheng Long wetlands.
Mumbai-based Prashant Jogdand, making a turban for a 3rd grade student at Cheng Long Elementary School, to wear on their outing to the wetlands.
Artist Prashant Jagdand’s 3rd graders in their bright orange turbans learning to say “Hello” or “Namaste” in Hindi.
Artist Yenting Hsu’s listening room for her sound installation, inside an abandoned house in the Cheng Long village.
Elderly visitors listening to Yenting Hsu’s sound installation, “Sounds Delicious.”
Young local visitors sand painting on a light-box, inside Kaohsiung artist Yvonne Chiu’s installation “The Dinner House.”
A volunteer and children from Cheng Long Elementary School working on “The Dinner House” installation by Yvonne Chiu.
View of of artist Yvonne Chiu’s animated film, presented on a small screen covered in rice, installed inside an abandoned house in Cheng Long, for her installation “The Dinner House.”
